>FAA regulations do not actually require any kind of instruments - > flight or engine - for experimental category airplanes.
That's interesting. Didn't know that. My conversations with others regarding "certifieds" have had to do with their not being able to put the wonderful assortment of "non certified" avionics in their planes, as we can do with ours. Grand Rapids Technologies with synthetic vision, Dynon, TruTrak, the list goes on. Fantastic and capable avionics and a fraction of what the "certified" stuff costs. If you have a Standard Category aircraft though . . . forgetaboutit. I've got my little KR-1½ set up now for IFR capable flight. It flies fine in the clouds, although my GPS RAM bracket sometimes falls off in the bumps and I've got to do something about that. It's quite a distraction. As everyone here knows, you can't just take your hand off the stick to use both hands to put the bracket back on - not in the clouds anyway, and especially not in turbulence. I've been doing night flying too lately. Driving the CBP people nuts I'm sure as I'm the only one up there. I'm sure I'm the Big Star on everyone's radar screen along the border in this SoCal area as I practice my approaches and do my night landings. My next project, once I get some money ahead, are to put some servos under the seat and add the autopilot module to my TruTrak ADI. Actually, it's a replacement instrument that the company will give me full credit for upon return of my current non-autopilot ADI. I couldn't dream about doing any of this if I had a Standard Category aircraft. In short, I'm set up now to do everything the big boys do, only I'm burning four gallons an hour and can do all my maintenance, repair, upgrades, etc. myself. Mike ____________________________________________________________ Get the best Criminal Lawyer. Click Here http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTOVoK5KooG7JRgVpZ4iXxCO0Ksd1VnG9zUJlrfYvt5gPrVniH0kjm/
